Haakon Solaas plays Fanitullen on the hardanger fiddle

[jessyquedens]

He's great and his fiddle is beautiful.

[MeapyMeaps]

I like how he looks so happy to be playing his fiddle. :)

[raulgares10]

hey este es el autentico papa noel¿

[SergioJdc]

An instrument very rare, but very beautiful too. I like very much the song.

Thanks for share.

Sorry for my english.

Sergio

[MeapyMeaps]

Can somebody hook me up with this guy to teach me how to play that thing? :D

[rizner12]

Santa?

[EspritDeBottineQc]

@rizner12 I think you're right, cause I have a fiddle for christmas.

[chillaxnagain]

I like how his mastery is so casual. He sitting around in a sweater, halfway turned around in his favorite chair absolutely killing this song.

[Henrik13579]

kowwowowo

[iwantpig]

who woulda thought satan is such a creative composer

[ts2101]

@iwantpig What has satan to do with this?..... I can see that it can be a ''hell'' to tune a hardanger fiddle.....

[iwantpig]

@ts2101 it's the origin story for that song. a man goes down to his basement to find satan playing that tune. or something like that

[iwantpig]

@ts2101 "Fanitullen", or "The Devils Tune" was heard for the first time during a wedding in a valley in Norway in 1724. When the toastmaster went down to the cellar to get more beer. In the cellar the toastmaster saw a man sitting on the barrell of beer playing this tune on a fiddle held the wrong way around, pressing the neck of the fiddle against his chest and

stomping the beat on the barrell with a horse hoof. The fiddler was the devil.

[ts2101]

@iwantpig hmmm... the more you know! Thanks.

[uidsea]

Why do Norwegians all wear that shirt?

[jurdalf]

@uidsea its the main fashion here, everybody has that shirt and we wear it all the time, some even sleeps in it.

[ukebert]

And ever since then, whenever this tune is played, knives grow loose in their sheaths...

[oxLittleMissNJxo]

:)

[JonMarTwins]

i like the face of this guy :D

[maddogthirteen]

After he lost his powers, Magneto found solace in the hardanger violin.

[Uvisir]

i love old men playing violins alays makes you think of childhood!

[Sondreinj]

Haakon Solaas from norway? sounds rly norwegian : )

[TheDonaldido]

@Sondreinj "This video is of Haakon Solaas, from the Sogn region of western Norway" Tadaa!

[renact2]

happiness and longing in his eyes! Beautiful! You can feel the piece. warms the heart!

Worth the trip to Norway!

[mike53341]

Give this man one million dollars! Or a beer.

[PopBubblewrappable]

@mike53341

Give him one million beers! He might not play as well afterwards, but no matter!

[AMIDRUNKYET]

Fanitullen makes me happy and sad at the same time... The best performance her!!!!

[solaas77]

Very nice...



[Feyzala]

great song, amazing instrument!



[ShivSilverhawk]

Made my day! Greetings from Poland!

[Kaughphie]

I want one!

[Aasmundar]

Det har vell seg slik ar det er mest nasjonalromantiskt å si at det var Loke som satt på tønna og ikke satan. Da Fanitullen er et norskt stykke mens navnet satan er ikke herifra i det hele tatt. Vi sier det slik.. :) Loke satt på tønna.

[Frostliche]

@Aasmundar Det er ikke sånn at Loke er djevelen i den norrøne mytologien da, om det var det du mente. Hardingfela å musikken dens er fra en senere periode, etter kristningen av Norge. Da var det fanden som gjaldt.

[Aasmundar]

@Frostliche Nei men da prater du filosofi. Å det er ingen som kan bestemet hva Loke er for noe. Det gode å det onde har vært betraktet i alle kuturer, såvidt jeg vet. Den gode arbeider på et ærlig vis for å nå sine mål mens den onde skaffer seg til veie det han trenger ved å lure til seg, snike å lyve. Var det ikke det Loke gjorde. Han drepte Balder for han var sjalu på hans usårbarhet, mens Tyr som var en typisk god gud sprang egenhendig helt ti Hel's rike for å kreve Balder tilbake til Åsgard.

[slitor]

@Frostliche Ja han gamle Erik ja.

[vildeveitja95]

Å gjett hva jeg skal lære meg nå:D:D!!! Nydelig spilt!!

[petecorey]

folk.uio.no/hege/Sanger/Fanitu­llen.html

[RydENh34d]

Utrolig bra spilt, elsker dette musikkstykket!

[Marchawc]

Bravo!

[holysmokinkitty]

thank you for sharing it was lovely!

[gageman70]

where do you even get one of these? what a beatific piece of music and beautiful craftsmanship of that fiddle

[prinsessan18]

Nydelig! Spelar själv fiol. finns det noter någonstans att få?

[lizgabay1]

The tuning is trollstilt. The upper strings A-E-A-C# and the understrings (a) - c# - e - f# - a

[lizgabay1]

Put "feleverkene hardingfele" or "feleverkene oslo" into a search engine. The uio.no site should come up. Once on the site, click on 'feleverkene' and you should find the 'søk' box. Put 'fanitullen' into the box and Odd Bakkerud's version will come up.  You tube doesn't allow me to put in the link directly. The Oslo collection is a fantastic resource for fiddle tunes.

[ignoranttwat]

@mrmdog

I know this was a year ago, but it says

"Beautiful. Are some roots in Norway me smile now = D

I'll start with the violin now, even at the age of 25;) You have now given me the song that I will be. When I saw this, I'm so good on the instrument that I feel is necessary: D"

[kazioDK]

Overvældende fantastisk !

[fonzleclay]

Norwegian Wood really is good!!!

[quizvass]

THIS is rock. And roll!

[torgeir01]

Really good playing sir.

Love from Norway

[silvertownexpress]

Can anyone who speaks English (or Spanish or Catalan) please tell me what the tuning is that Mr. Solaas is using here? Anywhere I can download the sheet music for this? Thanks.

[silvertownexpress]

I just bought my first Hardanger fiddle, and will be learning this tune from your video. This man has a LOVELY playing style. Thanks for posting this.

[leifastrup]

bravo, man undrer at de store hænder kan få så flotte toner ud af det lille instrument, rigtig flot video

[picardkid]

Santa kicks back after feeding his reindeer

[irateofwatford]

Magnificent!

[Jovomusic]

Utroligt vakkert spillet, meget dyktigt.

[Oslosfantasi]

har du det bra?

[ducktapesandwhich]

beautiful instrument.

[alakaramba]

nice work håkon;)

notice this: playing that position would only work on the hardanger fiddle 'cause the fiddle is being held mostly by the hand. On the normal fiddle, it would be much more difficult to play like that because the fiddle is being held mostly by the neck.

[wolfieboyer]

disagree.

[fjelly0]

The way he says (saying without speaking)

(with style, grace and naturallity!)

NIX MORE

(NO WAY!)

at 2:50.

is ADMIRABLE!

!

[Vikingskog]

The story behind this tune(fanitullen "satans melody/tune"), is that during a wedding in Hallingdal in Norway, after 2 men had a duel to the death, a man was going down to the basement to get some mead for the winner.

When he came downstairs he saw satan sitting on the beer barrel, playing the fiddle while stumping the rythm with his hoof. He got scared and ran up again, but remembered the melody. So this is it, satans fiddle melody.

[gabydragona]

Cool... I wouldn't doubt it :-P

Thanks for sharing

[petrino]

@Vikingskog i heard it different. i heard it was LOKE sitting there teaching the kids to play. the man was furius and threw a barrel at him and it smashed. later the kids made fiddles out of the wood of the barrel and played the tunes LOKE taught them.

[Vikingskog]

@petrino sorry but thats wrong. Even the name of the tune, fanitullen, means "fandens(satans) tune". Loke or any of the norse gods are hardly mentioned at all in any situation after 1400.

[iszalgocomin]

@Vikingskog I am norwegian and he is right, even in children music books it says satan.

[djehuty13]

@Vikingskog He can't have been too scared. That piece is almost 3 minutes long!

[Arian545]

@djehuty13 Its amazing what you can do when you're scared :)

[traktorlaila]

@Vikingskog With several variations of the story mind you... Another details how the devil thaught a fiddler this tune while two men stabbed eachother to death upstairs...

[ArchaicMusics]

@Vikingskog that's probably the most manliest story i ever heard

[QuantumVenger]

The master of drink ran upstairs, only to find the fight over and Levord lying dead on the floor

[QuantumVenger]

@QuantumVenger Story is from a wedding in Norway in 1724. It's said the womenfolk used to bring shrouds to parties n those days. Ådne Sindrol and Levord Haga got into an argument. They were tied together with a belt and given a knife each. As they were fighting the master of drink went to fetch more ale. In the cellar he saw someone sitting on the keg. This person was playing a fiddle,backwards, holding the pointy end to his chin..and playing fanitullen, while tapping his hoof against the keg.

[7malmusk]

Herrlich!

[Raglaen]

Herlig!

[limbride]

3x20 in style and for being a funny guy on general :D

[gabydragona]

I LOVED THAT. Simply hipnotic...

[melvinklassen]

> hypnotic

Be very careful-- translated, the name of the piece is "The Devil's Tune" -- don't allow the devil to seduce you away.

Always check that the fiddler has feet, not hooves! :-)

[gabydragona]

Wow, I didn't know that... It's really suggestive

[honeyspur]

How flawless and beautiful - sparkling clarity

[philosoful]

This is amazing, thank you for this video, what an interesting instrument... I still don't understand how the extra strings work...

[worlock93]

The vibrations of the principal (bowed) strings causes the bottom strings vibrate and sound in sympathy. The simplest example is the tuning fork. If you take a tuning fork tuned for the note "A" strike it and hold it against a stringed instrument the strings also tuned to "A" will begin to vibrate in harmony. There is also some other complicated stuff going on with harmonics and overtones, but that's the basic explanation ;)

[philosoful]

How lovely, that is glorious, thank you for such an explanation. Such an interesting and 'undiscovered' instrument it seems to me, clearly it's more common in it's home land but I don't think anyone I know except my Violin teacher (who told me of this hence me finding this) would know what one is by name :|

Thanks!

[melvinklassen]

In addition to the comments by 'worlock93', note that the bridge is much flatter than the "ordinary" fiddle, allowing bowing of 2 or even 3 strings at once. It's especially noticeable after the 2:18 mark, where you hear a lower-pitch "drone" while the higher-pitch part moves.

[philosoful]

Oh yeah, it looks almost horizontal, I noticed tons of double stops but I just presumed they were really good (though he still clearly is utterly skilled!) Can you actually play single string stuff on these?

[fjelly0]

20 i stil!

Utrolig sikkerhet.

Første folkemusikkstykke

jeg har digga!

[dodraugen]

Didn´t see this until now.

Your an inspiration ;) It´s nice that norwegian music expandes to outside the borders :)

[haibinge12]

å se deg spille den gjør at jeg får lyst til å spille igjen, takk, kjempe bra gjennomført!

[Guro2105]

Nydelig! Jeg elsker fanitullen :)

[thrashed80]

Hey, that was very good!

[Colorshade]

Ifølge Lillebjørn Nielsen (Dagbladet) har Alexander Rybak lånt "riffet" sitt herfra, fra denne sangen, bare at han spiller den i moll. Og når jeg tenker over det... så er det noe kjent over det. Det som spilles i denne videoen er i hvert fall akkurat det jeg forbinder med norsk hardangerfele og folkefest :p

[smedaas]

Kjempestilig!

[cadillackman]

utruli bra å spele.kjempe flott.

[suzearl]

Tusen takk! Naa blir det lettere for meg aa spille grieg's opus 72 paa piano. Naa horer jeg hardangar fiddel i min piano musikk. Jeg var forvirret over hvordan det skulle horer ut. Naa er det klart hva Grieg betyd med det. Sorry about the poor norsk!

[zaretix]

Hvor er du i fra? Where are you from?

[suzearl]

Washington , USA. Jeg bodde i Norge i 1985 og '86.

[Vikingskog]

Tøft :) Barskt skjegg óg.

[dukeoftiron]

I only just learned about the Hardangar fiddle and I wanted to understand what it would sound like. This is a fantastic and lovely demonstration. Thank you for sharing your skill!

[dingo585]

a little bit of heaven/ !!valhalla!! but bautiful indeed

[Elluen]

Haha, bestilte fiolin igår :P

Inspirert av fanitulla.

[lolilalokjkj]

Konge mann! fint skjegg;)

Nasjonalromantiskt vidunderlig!

[akpetunia]

Thank you so much for sharing this! I enjoyed it greatly.

[3DLeif]

Haakon! Det var helt utrolig. God Norsk musikk! Takk, takk! :)

[multemusic]

Dodraugen said (paraphrase): It's beautiful / lovely. There's some Norwegian roots in me that smile now. I will begin with violin myself now at the age of 25. You have now given me the song I will attempt. When I can do so am I so clever/fluent/talented on the instrument as I feel is necessary.

[phoenixsonrising]

Bravo!

[beatbelly]

wow hann får d te å se så enkelt ut hehehe så flott

[dodraugen]

Nydelig. Er noen norgerøtter i meg som smiler nå =D

Jeg skal begynne med fiolin nå selv i en alder av 25 ;) Du har nå gitt meg den sangen som jeg skal kunne. Når jeg kan denne så er jeg så flink på instrumentet som jeg føler er nødvendig :D

[isolaas]

Lykke til! (Good luck)

[roedbean]

meget fint spilt :)

[Deadman7782]

So nice to hear the "Devil tunes"

[fftymlseast]

Awesome! and yes, What JesusPaid4You said!

[Twinhit]

That's a wonderful instrument and an enchanting performance.

Thank you for sharing this gentleman's music.

[gusthelesswise]

Yay! a decent and recording of a really nice hardingfele. If I ever manage to go to any of the scandinavian countries then I'll have to get one.

[Elluen]

Tøft. Sinnsykt proffesionell!

[36orvin]

Excellent, thank you, from your relative in Montana USA

[Espresso84]

for en gossin kar med vakkert felespill :D

[NorwegianAnimeLover]

Vakkert :)

[solarisqs]

super

[Therazorbeak]

nydeleg!!

[Utgardband]

gimme,gimme,gimme more...elska da!:P

[kitaro1007]

Amazing! It sounds so beautiful

[jowh]

Well played :)